Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.) 2017, ‘Gautreks saga 35 (Starkaðr gamli Stórvirksson, Víkarsbálkr 27)’ in Margaret Clunies Ross (ed.), Poetry in fornaldarsögur. Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages 8. Turnhout: Brepols, p. 278.
Þess eyrendis, at mér Þórr um skóp
níðings nafn, nauð margskonar;
hlaut ek óhróðingr ilt at vinna.
Þess eyrendis, at Þórr um skóp mér nafn níðings, margskonar nauð; ek hlaut óhróðingr at vinna ilt.
‘With this result, that Þórr shaped for me the name of traitor, distress of many kinds; inglorious, I was fated to perform evil deeds. ’
As for Vík 26.
[3]: The metre of this line is kviðuháttr.
Text is based on reconstruction from the base text and variant apparatus and may contain alternative spellings and other normalisations not visible in the manuscript text. Transcriptions may not have been checked and should not be cited.
Þess eyrendis,
at mér þar um skóp
níðings nafn,
nauð margskonar;
hlaut ek óhróðingr
ilt at vinna.
þess eirendiz ad mier þar um sköp nīdingz nafn naud | margskonar, hlaut eg öhrödigr illt at vinna
(HA)
Þess eyrendis,
at mér Þórr um skóp
níðings nafn,
nauð margskonar;
hlaut ek óhróðingr
ilt at vinna.
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